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 678 Floor stocks. Ante, p . 40. Prior imports, duty pai d. Sugar held under contract. Processed from sugar beets, cane, etc. Certain tax refunds not to apply. Secretary authorized to make purchases from surplus stocks . Price ; disposal of, etc. Ante, p. 672. Not includ ed in quota. Use of receipts. ,info, p. 38. May 9, 1934 . (S . 2922 .1 [Public, No. 214 .1 U.S.C.,p. 1257. 73d CONGRESS . SESS . II. CHS. 263, 264. MAY 9, 1934 . fine of not mo re than $1,00 0 or by impri sonment for no t exceeding six months, or both ." Snc . 17 . Section 16 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new subsections "(c) (1) Any sugar, imported prior to the effective date of a pro- cessing tax on sugar beets and sugarcane, with respect to which it is established (under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury) that there was paid at the time of importation a duty at the rate in effect on January 1, 1934, and (2) any sugar held on April 25, 1934, by, or to be delivered under a bona fide contract of sale entered into prior to April 25, 1934, to, any manufacturer or converter, for use in the production of any article (except sugar) and not for ultimate consumption as sugar, and (3) any article (except sugar) processed wholly or in chief value from sugar beets, sugarcane, or any product thereof, shall be exempt from taxation imder subsection (a) of this section, but sugar held in customs custody or control on April 25, 1934, shall not be exempt from taxa- tion under subsection (a) of this section, unless the rate of duty paid upon the withdrawal thereof was the rate of duty in effect on January 1, 1934 . The provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of thi s secti on sha ll not apply i n the case of sugar beets or suga rcane or the products thereof. "(d) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase, out of such proceeds of taxes as are available therefor, during the period this Act is in effect with respect to sugar beets and sugarcane, not in excess of thre e hundred tho usand tons of sugar raw val ue from the surplus stocks of direct-co nsumption sug ar produced in the United States beet-sugar area, at a price not in excess of the market price for direct consumption sugar on the date of purchase, and to dispose of such sugar by sale or ot herwise, incl uding distribu tion to any organization for the relief of the unemployed, under such conditions and at such times as will tend to effectuate the declared policy of section 8a of this Act . The sugar so purchased shall not be included in the quota for the United States beet-sugar area . All proceeds received by the Secretary of Agriculture, in the exercise of the powers granted hereby, are appropriated to be available to the Sec- retary of Agriculture for the purposes described in subsections (a) and (b) of section 12 of this Act ." Approved, May 9, 1934, 11 .23 a .m . [CHAPTER 264 .] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to promote the circulation of reading matter among the blind", approved April 27, 1904, and Acts supplemental thereto . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the Promotion matter lion of readi ng ma r United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Act for the blind . entitled "An Act to promote the circulation of reading matter among Vol. 33, p . 313; VolL the blind ", approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat . 313), the supplemental bAp . 551; vol . 43, p . provision in section 1 of the Post Office Appropriation Act for 1913, approved August 24, 1912 (37 Stat . 551), and the joint resolution entitled " Joint resolution to provide for the free transmission through the mails of certain publications for the blind ", approved June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 668; U.S.C., title 39, ch. 8, sec. 331), be, and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows Frank ing priv ilege " Books, pamphlets, and other reading matter published either in extended to sound pro- duction records. raised chara cters, whethe r prepared by hand or print ed, or in the form of sound reproduction records for the use of the blind, in pack-